Atheist Nexus2015-03-31T23:05:58ZDanielhttp://www.atheistnexus.org/profile/1cr096zen1ug3http://api.ning.com/files/3EqS753d9S5VDw7mgOhVfB1RrbNighSczxeGkebxlK8V3W*UrHAwgNo1QKh2gex6wkAOpdxSc2dseEBCq*wXHyf9xm1wDfBYD9nwQ*zk36k_/Evolution_Your_Mom.gif?width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1http://www.atheistnexus.org/group/atheistswholovescience/forum/topic/listForContributor?user=1cr096zen1ug3&feed=yes&xn_auth=noHall rocket thruster 10 times more efficient than chemical rockets.tag:www.atheistnexus.org,2015-03-31:2182797:Topic:25872822015-03-31T15:50:53.511ZDanielhttp://www.atheistnexus.org/profile/1cr096zen1ug3
<p>Hall thrusters trap electrons in a magnetic field and use them to ionize the onboard propellant. The magnetic field also generates an electric field that accelerates the charged ions creating an exhaust plume of plasma that pushes the spacecraft forward. This method delivers cost-effective, safe and highly efficient in-space propulsion for long duration missions. In addition to propelling an asteroid mission, this new thruster could be used to send large amounts of cargo, habitats and other…</p>
<p>Hall thrusters trap electrons in a magnetic field and use them to ionize the onboard propellant. The magnetic field also generates an electric field that accelerates the charged ions creating an exhaust plume of plasma that pushes the spacecraft forward. This method delivers cost-effective, safe and highly efficient in-space propulsion for long duration missions. In addition to propelling an asteroid mission, this new thruster could be used to send large amounts of cargo, habitats and other architectures in support of human missions to Mars.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/content/pushing-the-boundaries-of-propelling-deep-space-missions-0/#.VRrANq7teLE">http://www.nasa.gov/content/pushing-the-boundaries-of-propelling-deep-space-missions-0/#.VRrANq7teLE</a></p>
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<p style="font-size: 13px; color: #555; margin: 9px 0 3px 0; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%;"><span>Posted:</span> 26 Mar 2015 12:14 PM PDT</p>
<p>An Ebola whole virus vaccine, constructed using a novel experimental platform, has been shown to effectively protect monkeys exposed to the often fatal virus. It differs from other Ebola vaccines because as an inactivated whole virus vaccine, it primes the host immune system with the full complement of Ebola viral proteins and genes, potentially conferring greater protection.</p> Science Journals suffer large scale peer review fraudtag:www.atheistnexus.org,2015-03-28:2182797:Topic:25862792015-03-28T21:09:32.236ZDanielhttp://www.atheistnexus.org/profile/1cr096zen1ug3
<p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/03/27/fabricated-peer-reviews-prompt-scientific-journal-to-retract-43-papers-systematic-scheme-may-affect-other-journals/?postshare=5031427452343393" target="_blank">Major publisher retracts 43 scientific papers amid wider fake peer-review scandal</a></p>
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<blockquote><p>“The problem of fake peer reviewers is affecting the whole of academic journal publishing...</p>
<p>... the Committee on Publication Ethics, a…</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/03/27/fabricated-peer-reviews-prompt-scientific-journal-to-retract-43-papers-systematic-scheme-may-affect-other-journals/?postshare=5031427452343393" target="_blank">Major publisher retracts 43 scientific papers amid wider fake peer-review scandal</a></p>
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<blockquote><p>“The problem of fake peer reviewers is affecting the whole of academic journal publishing...</p>
<p>... the Committee on Publication Ethics, a multidisciplinary group that includes more than 9,000 journal editors, <a href="http://publicationethics.org/news/cope-statement-inappropriate-manipulation-peer-review-processes">issued a statement</a> suggesting a much broader potential problem. The committee, it said, “has become aware of systematic, inappropriate attempts to manipulate the peer review processes of several journals across different publishers.”</p>
<p>The pattern we have found, where there is no apparent connection between the authors but similarities between the suggested reviewers, suggests that a third party could be behind this sophisticated fraud.”</p>
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<p><a target="_blank" href="https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://img.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp-content/uploads/sites/21/2015/03/FullSizeRender-1024x720.jpg&amp;w=1484"><img class="align-center" src="https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://img.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp-content/uploads/sites/21/2015/03/FullSizeRender-1024x720.jpg&amp;w=1484&amp;width=350" width="350"/></a></p> NASAs Opportunity Mars Rover's amazing 11 year 26 mile scientific discovery journey.tag:www.atheistnexus.org,2015-03-25:2182797:Topic:25852312015-03-25T14:39:18.564ZDanielhttp://www.atheistnexus.org/profile/1cr096zen1ug3
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<p>Opportunity's original three-month prime mission in 2004 yielded evidence of environments with liquid water soaking the ground and flowing on planet’s surface. As the rover continued to operate far beyond expectations for its lifespan, scientists chose the…</p>
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<p>Opportunity's original three-month prime mission in 2004 yielded evidence of environments with liquid water soaking the ground and flowing on planet’s surface. As the rover continued to operate far beyond expectations for its lifespan, scientists chose the rim of Endeavour Crater as a long-term destination. Since 2011, examinations of Endeavour's rim have provided information about ancient wet conditions less acidic, and more favorable for microbial life, than the environment that left clues found earlier in the mission.</p> Wound Healingtag:www.atheistnexus.org,2015-03-14:2182797:Topic:25817092015-03-14T18:36:46.060ZDanielhttp://www.atheistnexus.org/profile/1cr096zen1ug3
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<p>A multidisciplinary research team has discovered how cells know to rush to a wound and heal it -- opening the door to new treatments for diabetes, heart disease and cancer. The findings shed light on the mechanisms of cell migration, particularly in the wound-healing process. The results represent a major advancement for regenerative medicine, in which biomedical engineers and other researchers manipulate cells' form and function to create new tissues, and even organs, to repair, restore or replace those damaged by injury or disease.</p>
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<p><a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/03/150304-neanderthal-shipman-predmosti-wolf-dog-lionfish-jagger-pogo-ngbooktalk/" target="_blank">Did Dog-Human Alliance Drive Out the Neanderthals?</a></p>
<p><a href="http://phys.org/news/2014-05-domestication-dogs-mammoth-sites-success.html" target="_blank">Domestication of dogs may explain mammoth kill sites and success of early modern humans</a></p>
<p>Pat Shipman claims that wolf-dogs, the earliest domestic dogs, gave our ancestors…</p>
<p><a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/03/150304-neanderthal-shipman-predmosti-wolf-dog-lionfish-jagger-pogo-ngbooktalk/" target="_blank">Did Dog-Human Alliance Drive Out the Neanderthals?</a></p>
<p><a href="http://phys.org/news/2014-05-domestication-dogs-mammoth-sites-success.html" target="_blank">Domestication of dogs may explain mammoth kill sites and success of early modern humans</a></p>
<p>Pat Shipman claims that wolf-dogs, the earliest domestic dogs, gave our ancestors a huge competitive advantage over Neanderthal competitors. Specifically, working together <em>Homo sapiens</em> and early dogs brought down large numbers of mammoths.</p>
<blockquote><p>Neanderthals had been in Europe and into Asia for a couple of hundred thousand years before humans moved out of Africa into their home territory. The question has always been: Here are these two species, us and Neanderthals, which are closely related. We both made tools, had fire, were social and good hunters.</p>
<p>We had weapons we could launch from a distance, which is a very big advantage. There's a lot less risk of personal injury.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Add into that mix the doggy traits of being able to run for hours much faster than we can, track an animal by its scent, then with a group of other wolf dogs surround the animal and hold it in place while you tire it out. The advantage for wolf dogs is that humans can come in and kill from a distance. The wolf dogs don't have to go and kill this thing with their teeth, thereby lowering the risk of injury and death from very large animals like mammoths. For humans, it meant you could find the animals a lot quicker and kill them more efficiently. More food, less risk, faster.</p>
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<blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">A fragment of a large bone, probably from a mammoth, Pat Shipman reports, was placed in this dog's mouth shortly after death. This finding suggests the animal was according special mortuary treatment, perhaps acknowledging its role in mammoth hunting.</p>
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<p>This argument makes a lot of sense to me. Co-evolving with our first domesticated animal companions made our ancestors powerful. What do you think?<br/></p> Marburg and Ebola Virusestag:www.atheistnexus.org,2015-02-28:2182797:Topic:25769712015-02-28T22:40:39.598ZDanielhttp://www.atheistnexus.org/profile/1cr096zen1ug3
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<p style="font-size: 13px; color: #555; margin: 9px 0 3px 0; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%;"><span>Posted:</span> 26 Feb 2015 09:23 AM PST</p>
<p>Scientists have captured the first images showing how immune molecules bind to a site on the surface of Marburg virus and have described an antibody that binds to both Marburg and Ebola viruses, pointing to new antibody treatments to fight an entire family of viruses.</p> Climate Change Deniers.tag:www.atheistnexus.org,2015-02-23:2182797:Topic:25748412015-02-23T22:25:25.064ZDanielhttp://www.atheistnexus.org/profile/1cr096zen1ug3
<p> Have you ever met someone who flat out denies climate change? Or maybe they say humans don't influence it? Why is this? Is there some psychological block? Or maybe these people are blind? I don't really know, but it bothers me, a lot. When people are this ignorant on such an important topic, that actually scares me. <br></br> I wonder, are they actually teaching children about the influence something, like a car say, has on the environment? In that case, would this denial of responsibility be…</p>
<p> Have you ever met someone who flat out denies climate change? Or maybe they say humans don't influence it? Why is this? Is there some psychological block? Or maybe these people are blind? I don't really know, but it bothers me, a lot. When people are this ignorant on such an important topic, that actually scares me. <br/> I wonder, are they actually teaching children about the influence something, like a car say, has on the environment? In that case, would this denial of responsibility be just a passing generation, to be discarded by the younger one?<br/> How sad it is to think that so much more pressure will be placed on the new adults in this world, all because some wanted to shirk their duty to improve this planet as a whole. I suppose this has a lot to do with the companies making big money off of this ignorance, who would buy that nice car if they knew their grandchildren would suffer for it? Sure a few would still be apathetic, but I think on a whole, it would take the desired effect. And of course laziness, too lazy to find alternative ways of doing things, too lazy to pick up their trash. It's not like that solves the problem, landfills don't just go away, but throwing trash on the ground is disgusting. <br/> All ranting aside, how do you respond to this nonsense? Education is great, but as with all things it seems some people really just never learn. Although I have noticed most who deny it happen to believe in god, perhaps there is a causation of the thought that god will take care of everything. </p> FDA hides fraudtag:www.atheistnexus.org,2015-02-14:2182797:Topic:25675322015-02-14T03:43:27.676ZDanielhttp://www.atheistnexus.org/profile/1cr096zen1ug3
<p><a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2015/02/fda_inspections_fraud_fabrication_and_scientific_misconduct_are_hidden_from.single.html" target="_blank">Are Your Medications Safe?</a></p>
<p>You can't trust the Food and Drug Administration! For a decade it's been deeply captured, protecting <em>only</em> the pharmaceutical industry. Your doctor bases life or death decisions on bogus information.</p>
<blockquote><p>For more than a decade, the FDA has shown a pattern…</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2015/02/fda_inspections_fraud_fabrication_and_scientific_misconduct_are_hidden_from.single.html" target="_blank">Are Your Medications Safe?</a></p>
<p>You can't trust the Food and Drug Administration! For a decade it's been deeply captured, protecting <em>only</em> the pharmaceutical industry. Your doctor bases life or death decisions on bogus information.</p>
<blockquote><p>For more than a decade, the FDA has shown a pattern of burying the details of misconduct. As a result, nobody ever finds out which data is bogus, which experiments are tainted, and which drugs might be on the market under false pretenses. <strong><span class="font-size-3">The FDA has repeatedly hidden evidence of scientific fraud not just from the public, but also from its most trusted scientific advisers, even as they were deciding whether or not a new drug should be allowed on the market. Even a congressional panel investigating a case of fraud regarding a dangerous drug couldn't get forthright answers.</span></strong> For an agency devoted to protecting the public from bogus medical science, the FDA seems to be spending an awful lot of effort protecting the perpetrators of bogus science from the public.</p>
<p>... the FDA generates a lot of paperwork—... Establishment Inspection Reports, and in the worst cases, ... Warning Letters. If you manage to get your hands on these documents, you’ll see that, most of the time, key portions are redacted: information that describes what drug the researcher was studying, the name of the study, and precisely how the misconduct affected the quality of the data are all blacked out. These redactions make it all but impossible to figure out which study is tainted.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/articles/health_and_science/science/2015/02/150209_SCI_Doc01.jpg.CROP.original-original.jpg"><img class="align-center" src="http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/articles/health_and_science/science/2015/02/150209_SCI_Doc01.jpg.CROP.original-original.jpg?width=450" width="450"/></a>... the FDA knows about dozens of scientific papers floating about whose data are questionable—and has said nothing, leaving physicians and medical researchers completely unaware. The silence is unbroken even when the FDA itself seems shocked at the degree of fraud and misconduct in a clinical trial.</p>
<p>RECORD 4 was one of four large clinical trials that involved thousands of patients who were recruited at scores of clinical sites in more than a dozen countries around the world. The trial was used as evidence that a new anti-blood-clotting agent, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.xarelto-us.com/">rivaroxaban</a>, was safe and effective. The FDA inspected or had access to external audits of 16 of the RECORD 4 sites. The trial was a fiasco. At Dr. Craig Loucks’ site in Colorado, the FDA found <a target="_blank" href="http://www.fda.gov/downloads/RegulatoryInformation/FOI/ElectronicReadingRoom/UCM180531.pdf">falsified data</a>. At Dr. Ricardo Esquivel’s site in Mexico, there was “systematic <a target="_blank" href="http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/nda/2011/022406Orig1s000OtherActionLtrs.pdf">discarding of medical records</a>” that made it impossible to tell whether the study drug was given to the patients. At half of the sites that drew FDA scrutiny—eight out of 16—there was <a target="_blank" href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1215384-22-nda22-406compliancereview.html#document/p43/a191768">misconduct, fraud, fishy behavior</a>, or other practices so objectionable that the data had to be thrown out. The problems were so bad and so widespread that, contrary to its usual practice, the FDA declared the entire study to be “<a target="_blank" href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1215384-22-nda22-406compliancereview.html#document/p43/a191768">unreliable</a>.” Yet if you look in the medical journals, the results from RECORD 4 sit <a target="_blank" href="http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2809%2960734-0/abstract">quietly in <em>The Lancet</em></a> without any hint in the literature about falsification, misconduct, or chaos behind the scenes. This means that physicians around the world are basing life-and-death medical decisions on a study that the FDA knows is simply not credible.</p>
<p>The FDA is keeping mum, even as <a target="_blank" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/14/us-bayer-suit-idUSKBN0EP0HW20140614">wrongful-death lawsuits</a> begin to multiply.</p>
<p>Why does the FDA stay silent about fraud and misconduct in scientific studies of pharmaceuticals? Why would the agency allow claims that have been undermined by fraud to appear on drug labels? And why on earth would it throw up roadblocks to prevent the public, the medical community, its advisory panels, and even Congress from finding out about the extent of medical misconduct?</p>
<p>It’s a sign that the FDA is deeply <a target="_blank" href="http://edge.org/response-detail/23674">captured</a>, drawn firmly into the orbit of the pharmaceutical industry that it’s supposed to regulate.</p>
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<p style="margin: 1em 0 3px 0;"><a name="8" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Er/sciencedaily/top_news/top_science/%7E3/AmSdpntG7OM/150209094824.htm?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=email">3-D vaccine spontaneously assembles to pack a powerful punch against cancer, infectious diseases</a></p>
<p style="font-size: 13px; color: #555; margin: 9px 0 3px 0; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%;"><span>Posted:</span> 09 Feb 2015 06:48 AM PST</p>
<p>Researchers have developed a novel 3-D vaccine that could provide a more effective way to harness the immune system to fight cancer as well as infectious diseases. The vaccine spontaneously assembles into a scaffold once injected under the skin and is capable of recruiting, housing, and manipulating immune cells to generate a powerful immune response. The vaccine was recently found to be effective in delaying tumor growth in mice.</p>